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SCRATCH EDUCATOR GUIDE •
PONG GAME / EDUCATOR GUIDE
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With this guide, you can plan and lead a one-hour workshop using Scratch. Participants will gain experience with coding as they design a bouncing ball game.
EDUCATOR GUIDE Workshop Overview
First, gather as a group to introduce the theme and spark ideas.
SHARE 10 minutes
Next, help participants as they make games, working at their own pace.
At the end of the session, gather together to share and reflect.
IMAGINE 10 minutes
CREATE 40 minutes
Here’s a suggested agenda for a one-hour workshop:
Pong Game
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Imagine Begin by gathering the participants to introduce the theme and spark ideas for projects.
IMAGINE
Provide Ideas and Inspiration
Show the introductory video for the Pong Game tutorial. The video shows pong games with a variety of themes, such as space pong (using images of planets for the ball and stars for the backdrop).
scratch.mit.edu/pong or vimeo.com/llk/pong
Get Ready for the Workshop
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Use this checklist to prepare for the workshop.
Preview the Tutorial
The Pong Game tutorial shows participants how to create their own projects. Preview the tutorial before your workshop and try the first few steps: scratch.mit.edu/pong
Print the Activity Cards
Print a few sets of Pong Game cards to have available for participants during the workshop. scratch.mit.edu/pong/cards
Make sure participants have Scratch accounts
Participants can sign up for their own Scratch accounts at scratch.mit.edu, or you can set up student accounts if you have a Teacher Account. To request a Teacher Account, go to: scratch.mit.edu/educators
Set up computers or laptops
Arrange computers so that participants can work individually or in pairs.
Set up a computer with projector or large monitor
You can use a projector to show examples and demonstrate how to get started.
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Warm-up Activity: Bouncing Ideas
To get participants thinking about a theme for their game, take turns calling out a theme, such as pizza pong or flower pong and brainstorming ideas for the type of images they could use to represent the theme.
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Demonstrate the First Steps
Choose a ball sprite and make it bounce around:
Go to the Scratch website. Click Create. Choose a new backdrop:
Create Support participants as they create pong games, on their own or in pairs.
CREATE
Provide ResourcesOffer options for getting started
Suggest Ideas for Starting
IMAGINE
What background do you want for your game?
What color or type of ball?
Some particpants may want to follow the online tutorial: scratch.mit.edu/pong
Others may want to use the printed activity cards.
Demonstrate the first few steps of the tutorial so participants can see how to get started.
Start with PromptsAsk participants questions to get started
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• Choose a backdrop• Choose or draw a ball sprite and make it bounce around• Add a paddle sprite that you can control • Make the ball bounce off the paddle
Add a paddle sprite and control it with the mouse:
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CREATE Share Have particpants share their projects with others in the room.
SHARE
More Things to Try
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Remix a Game
A different way to make a pong game is to remix someone else’s project, adding images and ideas. Find a project to remix in the Pong Game Studio: scratch.mit.edu/studios/644508/ Click ‘See inside’, then click the ‘Remix’ button.
Two-Player Game
For a more advanced project, try making a two-player game. To make a new version of your own project, click File > Save as a Copy.
What’s Next?Here are a couple of other directions you could suggest:
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Prepare to Share
To add instructions and credits to a project online, click the button: ‘See project page’. This video shows how to share a project on the Scratch website: vimeo.com/llk/share
Offer strategies for problem solving
• Talk out what you’re working on with someone • Try out small bits of code at a time to figure out what’s happening at each step • Look closely at the blocks on the tutorial or activity cards to see if they are the same or different from the blocks you’re using • Look at the code for other pong games on the Scratch site
Ask questions to encourage reflection:
What did you notice about the games you tried?
What ideas might you add to your game?
• Add sounds and color effects • Keep score by adding a variable • Add a way to win or lose the game • Change the backdrop when you reach a certain number of points • Duplicate the ball for an added challenge